ABSTRACT: This article reviews social drug use by adolescents and provides information on school-based prevention programs. Commonalities in initiation and use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana,and chewing tobacco are described. A review of school prevention programs shows promise that adolescent us ...

Abstract. From a random sample of members of the 1996-1997 membership directory of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), school psychologists’acceptability ratings of three school-based programs for the prevention of adolescent suicide were examined. A total of 211 (46.2%) respond ...

The competence and problem behavior of a group of 70 adolescent suicide attempters were examined for effects of gender, age, and high risk versus low risk suicidal status. Results indicated that high suicide risk youth reported greater clinical levels of problem behavior than did their low risk coun ...

Abstract. Cooperative behavior is important for well-functioning high school classrooms in which students trust their teachers and actively engage in academic tasks. Yet, discipline referrals for disruption and defiance are all too common and can result in lost instructional time and increased teach ...

A Dozen Pearls of Wisdom: Lessons for Interns From Those Who Have Gone Before
By Paula Sachs Wise, NCSP
Recently, for a statewide intern– supervision workshop in Illinois, I delivered a talk about things that practicing school psychologists and/or trainers wished they had known when they the ...

2016–2017
Reach the professionals who are reaching kids.
The National Association of School Psychologists
empowers school psychologists by advancing
effective practices to improve students’ learning,
behavior, and mental h ...

2015–2016
Reach the professionals who are reaching kids.
The National Association of School Psychologists
empowers school psychologists by advancing
effective practices to improve students’ learning,
behavior, and mental h ...

The rationale for the rapidly developing concept and practice of vocational school psychology has been firmly established in a number of professional publications,convention programs, and national commissions (See Winter, 1978 issue of The School Psychology Digest). The National Commission for the S ...

Wanted: Skill-Building, Practitioner-Oriented
Presentations
By Kathleen Minke
NASP’s goal at the annual convention is to ensure the highest quality, most relevant sessions
on a diverse range of topi ...

Wanted: Skill-Building, Practitioner-Oriented
Presentations
By Kathleen Minke
NASP’s goal at the annual convention is to ensure the highest quality, most relevant sessions
on a diverse range of topi ...